Mach's principle : from Newton's bucket to quantum gravity /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Birkhauser, 1995. |
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| Description: | 536 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Einstein studies v. 6 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2329994 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and Historical. General Introduction / H. Pfister and J. B. Barbour. Mach before Mach / J. B. Barbour. Mach's Principle before Einstein / J. D. Norton. Mach's Criticism of Newton and Einstein's Reading of Mach: The Stimulating Role of Two Misunderstandings / H.-H. von Borzeszkowski and R. Wahsner. Einstein's Formulations of Mach's Principle / C. Hoefer. General Discussion: What is The Machian Program?
- 2. Nonrelativistic Machian Theories. Selected Passages: Math, Poincare, Boltzmann. Absolute or Relative Motion? / B. Friedlaender. On Absolute and Relative Motion / A. Foppl. Motion and Inertia / W. Hoffmann. On the Relativity of Accelerations in Mechanics / H. Reissner. The Possibility of Fulfillment of the Relativity Requirement in Classical Mechanics / E. Schrodinger. Weber's Law and Mach's Principle / A. K. T. Assis. A Relative Newtonian Mechanics / D. Lynden-Bell
- 3. General Relativity as a More or Less Machian Theory. Selected Passages on Machian Ideas / A. Einstein. Wheeler-Einstein-Mach Spacetimes / J. Isenberg. Comments on Initial Value Formulation / D. R. Brill. General Relativity as a Perfectly Machian Theory / J. B. Barbour. A Closed Universe Cannot Rotate / D. H. King
- 4. Other Formulations of Mach's Principle. Direct Particle Formulation of Mach's Principle / J. V. Narlikar. Mach's Principle and the Creation of Matter / F. Hoyle. The Integral Formulation of Mach's Principle / D. Raine. Mach's Principle and Local Causal Structure / U. Bleyer and D.-E. Liebscher
- 5. Frame Dragging. Absolute or Relative Motion? / I. Friedlaender. On a Gyroscope Experiment to Measure the Rotation Velocity of the Earth / A. Foppl. Dragging Effects near Rotating Bodies and in Cosmological Models / H. Pfister. Comments on Dragging Effects / D. R. Brill. Dragging Effects near a Rigidly Rotating Disk of Dust / R. Meinel and A. Kleinwachter. Dragging Effects and the Theory of Active Galactic Nuclei / V. Karas and A. Lanza. On the Interpretation of Dragging Effects in Rotating Mass Shells / J. Frauendiener
- 6. Experimental Status. Testing Machian Effects in Laboratory and Space Experiments / C. Will. Dragging of Inertial Frames, Gravitomagnetism, and Mach's Principle / I. Ciufolini. Time Variation of Fundamental Constants: Bounds from Local Data / P. D. Sisterna and H. Vucetich. Machian Effects in Physical Law and the Field Paradigm of Modern Physics / K. Nordtvedt
- 7. Critical Reflections. Mach, the Expansion of the Universe, the Variation of Inertial Mass, and Lense-Thirring / W. Rindler. Mach's Principle and Theories of Gravitation / H. F. M. Goenner. Machian Ideas and General Relativity / J. Ehlers. Reflections on Mach's Principle / H. Bondi
- 8. Quantum Gravity. The Higgs Field and Mach's Principle of Relativity of Inertia / H. Dehnen. Geometric Structures on Superspace / D. Giulini. General Discussion: Time, General Relativity, and Quantum Gravity.
